Is Axl Rose Banning Fans From Wearing Slash Merch At Guns N' Roses Shows?

According to TMZ, Axl Rose has banned Guns N' Roses fans from wearing Slash merchandise or gear at Guns N' Roses' recent shows, though someone from Rose's entourage denies the allegations.

TMZ reported on Sunday (Jan. 24) that concert security at one of Guns N' Roses' recent Canadian shows told fans wearing Slash T-shirts they had to turn them inside out or remove them before going into the venue. The website reports they weren't allowed to wear Slash-esque top hats, either.

TMZ says it "spoke with a member of the concert security team who confirmed the marching orders," and said a Guns N' Roses producer had relayed the orders.

But according to Contact Music, Fernando Lebeis, the son of Rose's personal assistant Beta Lebeis, says there was never any such merch ban.

"We did not advise any security to ban any sort of apparel," he said. "If they did, they did it on their own accord, or under someone else's order — from within their management."

Slash and Rose have been feuding since Slash left Guns N' Roses in the mid-'90s.

Rose accused Slash of lying about their feud in Slash's 2007 autobiography, and called the guitarist "a cancer" last year. In the same interview, he called Slash "a whore for the limelight," said he lacks passion for the guitar and wants absolutely nothing to do with him.

Slash responded to his comments in an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal by saying they didn't "really affect me at all. The fact that he has anything to say at all, it's like, 'Whatever, dude.'"

Slash will release his Slash & Friends solo album on April 6.

You can see Guns N' Roses playing these dates in support of 2008's Chinese Democracy:

Jan. 25 London, ON @ John Labatt Centre
Jan. 27 Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre
Jan. 28 Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Centre
Jan. 31 Ottawa, ON @ Scotiabank Place
Feb. 1 Quebec City, QC @ Colisee Pepsi
Feb. 3 Moncton, NB @ Moncton Coliseum
Feb. 4 Halifax, NS @ Metro Centre